glad to say im back in a Caddy after a few year "Break". i returned my Audi.. finally.. :p

im having an issue with the hard drive i put in my new ATS. its a 500gb lacie with about 300gb of music.
when i plug it in, it will start playing music but the CUE resets every 5 minutes or so, even when im not playing music off the drive it crashes CUE.

if i unplug the drive, all is well again.

anyone having issues like this? i think im going to format the drive and copy the music back to test. maybe theres a bad sector?

thanks in advance

Jon

bungee91

01-28-13, 12:51 PM

I haven't tried this, however I'll say that Cue doesn't seem to be designed with HDD's in mind (or even large SD cards for that matter).
Reading through the manual you'll see that there's some hard count # of songs that over a certain # defeats the use of voice functions for your library, however it still seems to want to aggregate all of your music into one merged artist/album/genre/etc... This typically takes about forever to build and repeats often.

I'd almost think that the resetting could be related to current draw from the drive, however it could just be a database problem, or something of that nature.

I don't expect using a large volume or HDD to yield a good experience with Cue.

I've also had strange issues with an NTFS formatted SD card (64 GB, Cue doesn't read it's native format of ExFAT), so I gave up on trying to use it as it didn't work reliably.

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This should also probably be in the Cue forum, located here http://www.cadillacforums.com/forums/cadillac-user-experience-cue/

danscrim

01-30-13, 04:29 PM

I can't remember exactly where, but I believe HDDs are called out explicitly to be unsupported in the manual. I just remember reading it somewhere.

drye

03-06-14, 12:01 PM

*Cast Resurrection on thread*

I've recently picked up a 2013 ATS and have used an iPod classic 160GB for years. I was disappointed to find that it regularly crashes CUE and/or the Ipod to where I have to manually reset the Ipod (Up+Middle buttons held) to get it to restart.

I've started some testing, so I've nerfed the amount of tracks down to compensate. So far so good.

don.davis

03-06-14, 03:28 PM

Jon, that was about the first thing I did in my ATS: stick a HDD in that cubby. It didn't like it. It spun up but never really finished initializing, so I assume it doesn't handle large numbers of folders and files.

What does your folder structure look like? Is it shallow or deep? How many levels? I had intended to experiment with different formats (NTFS vs. exFAT vs. FAT) and sector allocation sizes, but I never got to it.

CUE support has told me it doesn't play well with anything over 32gb and 4K media files per media device. Pretty sucky but there you have it. I've resorted to multiple 32GB USB drives and a single 32GB SD card.

I just picked up a Nexus 7 and hope to dangle a big drive from it via OTG, and just stream all my media to CUE via BT.

Having said all of that, if you can find a way to get it to play well with a HDD, let us all know! How easy that would make EVERYTHING...

drye

03-07-14, 03:42 PM

So far i've been running a 160GB Ipod classic with 100GB/13445 Songs on it, and its been working like a charm. I'm planning on putting more songs on to see what happens.

I already notice making shortcuts to things like Genre, its extremely laggy to get to the next track. So I may just not use shortcuts like that and stick with pre-created playlists that I create with Itunes.

I'll let you know what I find out, but you can get an ipod classic (80-160GB) for sub $200 easy.

pissedoffwookiee

03-07-14, 04:01 PM

it's possible this is a power problem on the USB port maybe someone can try powering the hard drive externally to test it, if not power then could be the seeking and spin up of the drives causing fits, this could be tested with a large flash based hard drive

listrats

03-08-14, 03:54 PM

32 GB SD card, seems to be the maximum without a single issue. Loads it all within about 5-10 seconds at start up

sqkid89

03-09-14, 11:30 AM

it's possible this is a power problem on the USB port maybe someone can try powering the hard drive externally to test it, if not power then could be the seeking and spin up of the drives causing fits, this could be tested with a large flash based hard drive

I was thinking the exact same thing. HDD's require a lot more power than a flash card or usb thumb drive.